Countries

Eritrea

Eritrea runs along the Red Sea coast in the Horn of Africa, rising from hot coastal lowlands to the cool highlands around Asmara. After a thirty-year war it won independence from Ethiopia, confirmed by a referendum in 1993.

Low waterfront buildings of the old port of Massawa seen across calm Red Sea water, Eritrea

Massawa, on the Red Sea

Photo: Clay Gilliland from Chandler, U.S.A., CC BY-SA 2.0

Green for farming, blue for the Red Sea, red for the blood shed for independence. The gold olive wreath and branch stand for peace. Adopted in 1995.

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